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Ever since getting a Mega Drive as a toddler, Joe has been fascinated by video games. After studying English Literature to M.A. level, he has worked as a freelance video games journalist, writing for PC Gamer, The Guardian, Metro, Techradar, and more. A huge fan of indies, grand strategy games, and RPGs of almost all flavors, when he's not playing games or writing about them, you may find him in a park or walking trail near you, pretending to be a mischievous nature sprite, or evangelizing about folk music, hip hop, or the KLF to anyone who will give him a minute of their time.

Latest articles by Joe Chivers

Players fishing and chopping wood in a forest in RuneScape: Dragonwilds

RuneScape: Dragonwilds has gathered its ingredients but still lacks flavor

By Joe Chivers Published 21 September 26

Now Playing Looking for an eScape?

Now Playing

Wardogs feels like Call of Duty without the pressure to kill – as long as you're making phat stacks

By Joe Chivers Published 15 September 26

Now Playing Money talks louder than guns in Wardogs, and despite its flaws, the genre-blending FPS has me in a chokehold

Now Playing

Key art for Persona 4 Revival showing the party of characters posing in a stack in front of a blue and yellow-tinted Inaba

Persona 4 Revival - Everything we know so far about the new Persona 4 remake

By Joe Chivers Last updated 10 September 26

Guide Excitement for Persona 4 Revival is reaching fever pitch as an age rating is given to the upcoming JRPG

Guide

Valheim's 1.0 launch proves its scope for epic journeys is still unbeatable

By Joe Chivers Published 9 September 26

Now Playing Valheim and poetry have more in common than you think

Now Playing

Key art for Hell Let Loose: Vietnam showing a squad of soldiers approaching an island as fires break out around them

Hell Let Loose: Vietnam review: "Often frustrating but always involving, this FPS brings war to life and bloody death"

By Joe Chivers Published 12 August 26

Review This FPS' very nature fights against making battles a streamlined experience, but it works

Review

A sheep-like Pal creature in Palworld snoozes near the player, bubbles floating above them as other Pals also rest

Palworld 1.0 is as much Elden Ring and Zelda inspired as it is Pokemon, but still enjoyable in its messiness

By Joe Chivers Published 14 July 26

Now Playing Now Playing | When this survival game's mix of inspirations click, it's electric

Now Playing

Best Assassin's Creed protagonists: A collection of several of the heroes in the Assassin's Creed games edited together.

Ranking the best Assassin's Creed protagonists of all time

By Joe Chivers Last updated 9 July 26

Best List Before you play Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, here are the best Assassin's Creed protagonists we've met so far

Best List

Guild Wars 3 may have cracked the MMO code for tired millennials

By Joe Chivers Published 30 June 26

Opinion Opinion | You get to a certain age and start taking magnesium and stop playing MMOs

Opinion

I don't need new games, The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past proves older RPGs are just as relevant

By Joe Chivers Published 26 June 26

Opinion Opinion | I'll take modern classics over novelty any day

Opinion

How to find and complete Ancient Vows in Path of Exile 2

By Joe Chivers Last updated 17 June 26

Guide How to find and complete Ancient Vows in Path of Exile 2

Guide

Slay the Spire 2 screenshots from the Early Access trailer

I love Slay the Spire 2, I hate Slay the Spire 2

By Joe Chivers Published 28 April 26

Opinion Opinion | The Spire giveth and the Spire taketh away

Opinion

37 years since Prince of Persia, Replaced is the cinematic platformer I've been waiting for

By Joe Chivers Published 21 April 26

Now Playing Now Playing | Close enough, welcome back Delphine Software

Now Playing

A soldier holding a gun and running through a battlefield with a group, showing the strong multiplayer elements and crisp visuals of Battlefield 6.

The best games like Battlefield that you can play right now

By Joe Chivers Last updated 11 February 26

Best List From Hell Let Loose to War Thunder, here are the best games like Battlefield to play today when Battlefield 6 just isn't enough

Best List

A low shot of Romeo slashing downward with a huge glowing sword in Romeo is a Dead Man

Romeo is a Dead Man review: "Suda51's bloodiest, sharpest spectacle since No More Heroes"

By Joe Chivers Published 10 February 26

Review

Rap duo Real Dimez in GTA 6 stand in front of microphones, with the GamesRadar+ Big in 2026 frame branding

Grand Theft Auto 6 will define 2026 and the future of gaming, for better or worse

By Joe Chivers Published 29 January 26

Opinion Big in 2026 | GTA 6 is going to have a profound impact on the shape of games to come, so players and developers alike are going to need to get ready

Opinion